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Comment Re:"Left the labor force" (Score 1) 172

What part of the word "insurance" do you not understand.

You have been continuously employed for 26 years and have not needed to collect the unemployment insurance that you have paid for.

Would you also say that you have paid for insurance on your house for 26 years so you should now be allowed to burn it down and have the insurance company build you a new one?

Comment US bank account (Score 5, Informative) 183

I'm not in or from the USA but I have a bank account at a US bank for the purpose of paying US based suppliers.

I interact with that account through the bank's website and can transfer money directly to it from my main bank account and make payments from that account through their website.

When I initially set up the account I assumed that those payments would be some kind of an electronic funds transfer.

Nope.

You enter the mailing address for each payee, and they print and mail a physical cheque to them from the bank.

Really.

Everything about the transaction is through their website right up to the point that they print and mail a cheque. And I still find that amazing.

Comment Re:Why (Score 1) 328

One downside of a laterally centered driving position is much worse visibility when overtaking. A centered driving position is good for a track car where the chances of overtaking on the left or right are roughly 50/50, but on the street where the odds are heavily biased one way or the other depending on whether it's a LHD/RHD country, having your driver's seat on the correct side makes it much easier.

Comment Re:The purpose of a factory is not to provide jobs (Score 1) 197

So what's your suggested alternative?

Karl Marx's system sounds pretty good on paper. It really does; I read the Communist Manifesto several years ago and it's really an interesting take on society and social organization.

But the USSR didn't work out so well. I suspect it's because human nature (i.e. personal greed, for lack of a better term) isn't compatible with Marx's utopia.

Submission + - SMPTE Opens Entire Standards Library to Public at No Cost (smpte.org)

innocent_white_lamb writes: "SMPTE®, the home of media professionals, technologists and engineers, has announced that its entire Standards catalog is now freely available to the global media technology community. This includes all published SMPTE Standards, Recommended Practices, Engineering Guidelines and Registered Disclosure Documents (RDDs), as well as all future releases. For more than a century, SMPTE Standards have helped enable the interoperability that underpins the entertainment technology industry. By removing barriers to access, this milestone is expected to accelerate adoption and implementation, strengthen interoperability, and help drive the next generation of innovation."

SMPTE is the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, a global professional organization that sets standards for film, television, and digital media

Comment Justice delayed is justice denied (Score 5, Insightful) 65

"The case is expected to go to court between November 1, 2027, and February 25, 2028, The Register reported. Afterward, it could go to trial."

So two years later, after Tesco has completed all of the emergency work that's required to change their IT systems to something else, then this matter will be heard.

That timeframe is ridiculous. There's no reason why the courts can't operate more efficiently than they do other than that the lawyers and judges have no incentive to move things along.

How many other cases are old news and no longer particularly relevant by the time they're decided?

Comment Re:Of course not! (Score 2, Informative) 122

Also I would point out that there's nothing socialist about modern American fascism, considering that there's very little flirtation with collective ownership of the means of production going on (other than Sam Altman getting Trump to consider having the US government buy the gigantic economic black-hole-bomb he's built), but they do enact deals that look a good bit like socialism for corporations the regime favors...

Comment Re:Of course not! (Score 5, Insightful) 122

The vast majority of voters in any party want the opposite of that but are told to vote for "the lesser of two evils" which admits to an inherently evil system.

This is only possible because the US has first-past-the-post elections, a clunky and primitive voting method that can enable this situation. Moving to more advanced voting methods like ranked choice or STAR voting prevents a two-party stranglehold from forming.

Comment Re:Bye Chrome... (Score 1) 161

I'm a little surprised no one has tried to bring Manifest v2 back in a Chromium fork. It's supposedly open source after all. If it's too complicated to do practically, then really what's the point in Chromium being open source at all.

See also: Android and the ever-increasing difficulty, impracticality, and necessity of getting root access.

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